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"These are spots in your love feasts..."

Text: Jude 12

PART OF THE CHURCH COMMUNITY

These false teachers had crept into the church community. Jude described their presence with scathing words.

“These are spots in your love feasts,
while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves.
They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds;
late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots.”

Jude 12

1. There was a need to alert the church community

a) Jude knew the church community only too well.

b) They were gracious and kind to a fault.

c) Jude felt he needed to alert the church as to the true nature of these false brethren.

2. “Love feasts”

a) The early Church had “love feasts”.

b) The key word was “love”.

c) The church expressed their loving concern when they had these love-feasts.

d) The poor and needy especially benefited.

e) The food given would have been greatly appreciated by the less-fortunate.

3. “Spots in your love feasts”

a) The false brethren were invited to these special functions.

b) They took full advantage of these love-feasts.

c) They were “feasting without fear”.

4. What was the point of these love feasts?

a) It was a special way of serving the church community.

b) The richer ones ministered to the less-fortunate.

c) There was mutual blessing.

d) There was good rapport and fellowship among the church brethren.

5. “Serving only themselves”

a) They did not contribute to these love-feasts.

b) They were self-serving in their approach.

c) They exploited the church-community without any regard for anyone except themselves.